[Pythoncard-users] Simplesizer - found the right person to thank.

[Alex T. <al...@tw...>]

Many months ago,  there was some discussion about sizers, etc. One nice 
simple idea was suggested; at the time, I kind of "rejected" it because 
there are some simple things it didn't get quite right.

But recently I decided there were more things it could do right - and it 
was very simple. So I implemented something loosely based on that thread 
in the simpleSizer which I added to PythonCard in the last 2 or 3 
months; when I was doing that, I couldn't find the original email 
thread, so I didn't remember who had suggested it, and couldn't properly 
thank Fred for suggesting it.

But today I stumbled over it - so here is a belated attribution of the 
idea .... thanks Fred.
(And I realize my memory wasn't quite perfect, so it is much more 
"loosely" based than I had thought.)


  Sells, Fred wrote:

>> B. Geometry managements (aka sizers, resizing, etc.)
>> We had a simple grid (default to 100x100) with "attachment 
>> properties" on
>> each widget.  If both right and left edge of widget were attached, it 
>> would
>> move and resize with window resize, etc.  To simplify the use of
>> attachement, we had an attachment dialog that had 4 sets of identical
>> "attaching controls" arranged at North, South, East, West.  Combined 
>> with
>> multiple widget select, you could attache left and right sides of a 
>> bunch at
>> once, then go back and individually set top,bottom.  It was not as 
>> elegant
>> as most UI builders, but it was easy (the product was, after all, "ezX")
>>  
>>
> I think it's a little bit too simple for Pythoncard; it can't 
> adequately handle some very simple cases (e.g. the scrolling text 
> dialog, with one growable size textarea and one fixed size button 
> below it), and I think that could put a lot of people off.


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